Australia is spending $billions to fight tiny killer coronaviruses. Australia should be equally worried about tiny killer nuclear particles- theme for July 2021
Australia ought to have extensive knowledge on the effects of ionising radiation. Britain exploded 12 major nuclear bombs and 29 smaller ones in Australia and some neighbouring islands, in the 1950s. The resulting clouds of radiation would have affected especially indigenous people, Aborigines, Islanders, and also soldiers, and the white population.
Was any epidemiological research done on these populations? No, there was not.
Australia has had 13 uranium mines, 3 still in operation. It’s not as if the old ones have been thoroughly cleaned up. Ionising radiation from these mines would have affected miners, the mining community, and Aboriginal communities, and may still be affecting them.
Was any epidemiological research done on the health of these populations? No, there was not.
This is why the nuclear lobby can say, confidently – there is no evidence of harm to health in Australia, from low level ionising radiation.
Plenty of other evidence of individual cases – but these can be brushed off as “anecdotal”.
As the the Australian government plans a radioactive waste dump on agricultural land, and the global nuclear industry successfully lobbies some Australian politicians, it is time to genuinely examine the research that has been done, in other countries. We pay attention to epidemiology about tiny viruses, why not to epidemiology about tiny radioactive particles?
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The Road to War brings a sharp focus to why it is not in Australia’s best interest to be dragged into a war with China which will almost inevitably go nuclear very quickly. The filmmaker has interviewed some of Australia’s senior foreign policy analysts who have vast experience behind them in analysing what really is going on here as the United States rattles its sabres with China. And sets us up to be its proxy, like the poor Ukranians have been fed into the Meatgrinder. So America can remain the Top Dog. The Road to War reveals how the United States through its spy base at Pine Gap and by stationing six nuclear capable B52 bombers in the Top End (without permission from the traditional owners) is making Australia a prime nuclear target if the current war of words suddenly melts down into full scale war.
The Road to War shows the implicit connection between Carbon emissions (the US military uses a whopping 70% of America’s annual petroleum to move its armies and vast War Machine around the globe to its 800+ military bases..but under a loophole wangled at Kyoto, the US military does not have to report its C02 annual emissions). The Road to War starts screening at selected cities and regional centres in March. See the trailer end for details.
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